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1 online resource (393 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Sacred Ecology; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the Third Edition; 1. Context of Traditional Ecological Knowledge; Defi ning Traditional Ecological Knowledge; Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Science; Differences: Philosophical or Political?; Knowledge-Practice-Belief: A Framework for Analysis; Objectives and Overview of the Volume; 2. Emergence of the Field; Evolution and Differentiation of the Literature; Growth of Ecosystem-based Knowledge |
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Cultural and Political Signifi cance for Indigenous PeoplesQuestions of Ownership and Intellectual Property Rights; Practical Signifi cance as Common Heritage of Humankind; 3. Intellectual Roots of Traditional Ecological Knowledge; Ethnobiology and Biosystematics: A Good Fit; More on Linguistics and Methodology: How to Get the Information Right; Exaggeration and Ethnoscience: The Eskimo Snow Hoax?; Human Ecology and Territoriality; Integration of Social Systems and Natural Systems: Importance of Worldviews; 4. Traditional Knowledge Systems in Practice |
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Tropical Forests: Not Amenable to Management?Semi-arid Areas: Keeping the Land Productive; Traditional Uses of Fire; Island Ecosystems-Personal Ecosystems; Coastal Lagoons and Wetlands; Conclusions; 5. Cree Worldview "From the Inside"; Animals Control the Hunt; Obligations of Hunters to Show Respect; Importance of Continued Use for Sustainability; Conclusions; 6. A Story of Caribou and Social Learning; "No One Knows the Way of the Winds and the Caribou"; Cree Knowledge of Caribou in Context; Caribou Return to the Land of the Chisasibi Cree; A Gathering of the Hunters |
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Lessons for the Development of a Conservation EthicLessons for Management Policy and Monitoring; 7. Cree Fishing Practices as Adaptive Management; The Chisasibi Cree System of Fishing; Subarctic Ecosystems: Scientifi c Understanding and Cree Practice; Three Cree Practices: Reading Environmental Signals for Management; A Computer Experiment on Cree Practice and Fish Population Resilience; Traditional Knowledge Systems as Adaptive Management; Lessons from Fisher Knowledge; 8. Climate Change and Indigenous Ways of Knowing; Indigenous Ways of Knowing and New Models of Community-based Research |
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Inuit Observations of Climate Change ProjectA Convergence of Findings; Signifi cance of Local Observations and Place-based Research; Indigenous Knowledge and Adaptation; Conclusions; 9. Complex Systems, Holism, and Fuzzy Logic; Rules-of-thumb: Cutting Complexity Down to Size; Community-based Monitoring and Environmental Change; Complex Systems Thinking; Local Knowledge and Expert Systems; A Fuzzy Logic Analysis of Indigenous Knowledge; Conclusions; 10. How Local Knowledge Develops: Cases from the West Indies; A Framework for Development of Local and Traditional Knowledge |
| Summary |
Sacred Ecology examines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples around the world, and asks how we can learn from this knowledge and ways of knowing. Berkes explores the importance of local and indigenous knowledge as a complement to scientific ecology, and its cultural and political significance for indigenous groups themselves. This third edition further develops the point that traditional knowledge as process, rather than as content, is what we should be examining. It has been updated with about 150 new references, and includes an extensive list of web resources throug |
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Mangrove Conservation and Charcoal Makers |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Miljövetenskap -- teori, filosofi.
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Traditionell kunskap.
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Ekologi -- teori, filosofi.
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Vetenskapsteori.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203123843 |
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0203123840 |
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